Phenom II x4 905e to replace 4850e can PICO handle it?

Got a shopping cart of parts that you want opinions on? Get advice from members on your planned or existing system (or upgrade).

Moderators: NeilBlanchard, Ralf Hutter, sthayashi, Lawrence Lee

Post Reply
AuraAllan
*Lifetime Patron*
Posts: 713
Joined: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:49 am
Location: Denmark

Phenom II x4 905e to replace 4850e can PICO handle it?

Post by AuraAllan » Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:11 pm

Hi there,

I feel that its time for a CPU upgrade. I'm thinking Phenom II x4 905e.
Mainly because I play quite a bit of Football Manager 09 which is pretty CPU heavy when playing with large databases loaded.

Currently i'm running a 4850e on my Jetway NC81-LF(onboard WiFi) with 4 gigs of RAM and a Intel SSD.

Its all powered by my picoPSU-120 + 110w brick.

Here's my current power usage:
Idle (on desktop): 33,6W (4850e multiplier x5 and @ 0,85v)
Prime95: 72,2W (4850e multiplier x12,5 and @ 1,15v)
RTHDRIBL: 70,7W
Prime + RTHDRIBL: 80,3W
3DMark06: 72,9W

I can ofcourse hook the parts up to a normal ATX PSU and undervolt the x4 905e before installing the pico but I have no idea if the x4 905e is a good undervolter or not.

Can the pico + brick handle a switch from 4850e to the x4 905e?

lorenct
Posts: 2
Joined: Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:02 pm
Location: USA

NC81-LF and AMD Phenom II X4 905e

Post by lorenct » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:05 pm

Did your NC81-LF work with the AMD Phenom II X4 905e?

I would like to know because I have an NC81-LF would love to upgrade to quad cores...

Thank you for your response.

-Tim

dukla2000
*Lifetime Patron*
Posts: 1465
Joined: Sun Mar 09, 2003 12:27 pm
Location: Reading.England.EU

Post by dukla2000 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:31 am

Would also be curious to know.

For sure the 05 BIOS rev supports Propus and Rana core so Athlon II X4 6xx is OK. The Magic-Pro website (same board, except in Chinese!) seems to indicate Phenom X4 and X3 up to 65W are OK.

petieken
Posts: 20
Joined: Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:32 am
Location: Belgium

Post by petieken » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:15 am

I had the 905e on a J&W Minix 780G, 2x2GB DDR2-800, ATI Radeon HD4670, 7200rpm Sata HDD, DVD burner, 1 case fan, 1 cpu fan.

This unit was powered by a 135W PSU, never had power problems with it. All voltages and frequencies stock.

lorenct
Posts: 2
Joined: Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:02 pm
Location: USA

Post by lorenct » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:52 am

Looks like I found my answer at jetwaycomputer dot com, page NC81.html

FYI: Looks like I cannot post a URL until I have 3 posts...

Lists all the supported CPUs with BIOS Update A09.

Yeah!

AuraAllan
*Lifetime Patron*
Posts: 713
Joined: Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:49 am
Location: Denmark

Post by AuraAllan » Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:52 am

lorenct wrote:Looks like I found my answer at jetwaycomputer dot com, page NC81.html

FYI: Looks like I cannot post a URL until I have 3 posts...

Lists all the supported CPUs with BIOS Update A09.

Yeah!
http://jetwaycomputer.com/NC81.html

Well I haven't bought a 905e because I didn't get an answer here.
I'm not really keen on buying one until i'm almost 100% sure it will not kill my pico.
petieken wrote:I had the 905e on a J&W Minix 780G, 2x2GB DDR2-800, ATI Radeon HD4670, 7200rpm Sata HDD, DVD burner, 1 case fan, 1 cpu fan.

This unit was powered by a 135W PSU, never had power problems with it. All voltages and frequencies stock.
Reading this tempts me to buy a 905e.
Did you measure the power consumption?

petieken
Posts: 20
Joined: Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:32 am
Location: Belgium

Post by petieken » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:41 am

Unfortunately not. I just bought the watt-tester two weeks ago.
I now have the 905e on a regular ATX motherboard:
petieken wrote: Power consumption is about 65W idle.
Under full load (OCCT power supply test CPU+GPU) power consumption is ~130W.

System components are:
BeQuiet PurePower L7 300W PSU
Gigabyte MA770T-UD3 motherboard
AMD Phenom II 905e (quad core @ 2500Mhz)
OCZ 2x2GB 1600Mhz Gold AMD Edition, timings 8-8-8-24 (1T) @ 1.64V
Sapphire ATI HD4670 512MB GDDR4
Seagate 1TB 7200.12
LG DVD burner
Card Reader & Floppy Drive
Scythe Kabuto CPU cooler with Slipstream PWM fan
stock Lian Li case fans (to be replaced with 800rpm Slipstreams)
I'm going to use the Mini-ITX as an Internet/HTPC, and I don't need a quad core CPU for that :D . Those 250u/260u processors (25W TDP) would be great for this project, but I don't think they are available yet (retail).

Post Reply